Robert Mapplethorpe
Edited by Richard Marshall
Whitney Museum / Bulfinch Press 1988
Exhibition catalogue
Softcover, 216 pp
23,5 × 30 × 1,5 cm
Second printing
Texts in English
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 28 – October 23, 1988, this beautiful publication is illustrated with over 110 Robert Mapplethorpe’s iconic photographs, including several in colour.
Numerous self-portraits of the artist alternate with those of his famous friends (his first muse Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, Brice Marden, Carolina Herrera, Holly Solomon on his bed, the Greek profiles of Francesca Thyssen and Paloma Picasso, Schwarzenegger's sculptural body, etc.).
Philipp Glass and Robert Wilson, sitting comfortably in their chairs, precede two porn actors enthroned in leather on the following page.
The portrait of architect Philip Johnson is studied in the manner of flowers standing here and there like numerous erect penises.
Flowers, cocks, weapons... The smell of violence mixed with a musky scent of sweetness testifies to the immortal genius of Mapplethorpe's gaze, which is embodied in each snapshot of living nature.
With essays by Richard Marshall, Richard Howard and Ingrid Sischy (Mapplethorpe’s vision, A society artist, The Mapplethorpe effect).
This second-hand book bears traces of its previous life :
Small stain on cover’s right corner and at the top of the spine, few scratches.
Inside is perfect.
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